The SOA adoption is expected to bring a significant paradigm change in IT industry as the Client/Server architecture did from a terminal based architecture in the past.As Gartner has predicted about 80% of new development projects will be based on the...
The SOA adoption is expected to bring a significant paradigm change in IT industry as the Client/Server architecture did from a terminal based architecture in the past.As Gartner has predicted about 80% of new development projects will be based on the SOA by 2008, SOA is becoming a public attention because of its business agility and IT cost reduction benefit on today's business environment of growing diversity and convergence among various businesses. But since the SOA adoption level in Korea is still in early stage, many companies have difficulties both in setting a strategy and direction for adopting SOA and in achieving a goal of adopting SOA successfully.In addition, the SOA Maturity Model in Korea, a method of setting strategy of SOA adoption, is highly dependent on SOA vendor's technology and usually does not conform to standard. Therefore it makes difficult for vendors and users to measure performance of SOA adoption in a structured and standard way.Accordingly, this research exploits through 34 cases of literature study and 22 interview cases to define 20 CSF (Critical success factor) for the successful SOA adoption and to extract the detail processes of execution for every CSFs. In addition, the research has analyzed similarities and differences in the aspect of both provider and user in order to plan for SOA adoption in a complementary way.The research is the first study ever and has a significant value in the aspect that it reflects the reality of SOA implementation in Korea and that no systematic study of CSF (Critical Success Factor) for SOA adoption has been done so far.In addition, through identifying the common and different points in perspective between vendors and users, this research will provided optimized solutions for SOA adoption in real cases satisfying both vendors and users.Finally, in the corporate point of view, this research will provide a fundamental basis for measuring SOA adoption performance quantitatively in a structured and standard way.